… Is to stay sober and help other alcoholics to achieve sobriety

Personally, I believe our top priority as human beings, and as alcoholics is the maintenance of our spiritual condition -through this all else will be achieved!

A gentleman approached me after the noon meeting in alcohol anonymous and touched on something he said I’d spoken of previously. In Alcoholics Anonymous we say we can’t get people sober and we can’t get them drunk. I heard this in meetings for years – It made me think about the idea or the notion that we really don’t have much of an impact on one another. Which of course I believe to be false! Anyways, my response to him was “We may not be able to get people sober, but I sure-as-hell don’t want to be one of the one’s running people out of the rooms.

Besides, this idea of being powerless over others…* We constantly have an impact on those around us – and when practicing spiritual principles, there is nothing more powerful in the universe!

*Walk up to someone and spit in their face and see what their reaction is. Walk up to another person and offer them $20 see what their reaction is. Don’t tell me we don’t have power over others!